• citizen kane | orson welles, 1941
• vertigo | alfred hitchcock, 1958
• the rules of the game | jean renoir, 1939
• 2001: a space odyssey | stanley kubrick, 1968
• 8 1/2 | federico fellini, 1963
• the godfather | francis ford coppola, 1972
• the searchers | john ford, 1956
• the seven samurai | akira kurosawa, 1954
• singin' in the rain | stanley donen & gene kelly, 1952
• battleship potemkin | sergei eisenstein, 1925
• tokyo story | yasujiro ozu, 1953
• sunrise | f.w. murnau, 1927
• lawrence of arabia | david lean, 1962
• bicycle thieves | vittorio de sica, 1948
• the godfather part II | francis ford coppola, 1974

goal: read 50 books

• brideshead revisited | evelyn waugh
• the bell jar | sylvia plath (reread)
• tinkers | paul harding
• how to lie with statistics | darrell huff
• the story of o | pauline reage
• the french lieutenant's woman | john fowles
• the remains of the day | kazuo ishiguro
• england, england | julian barnes
• waterland | graham swift
• the bloody chamber | angela carter
• white teeth | zadie smith
• wetlands | charlotte roche
• sputnik sweetheart | haruki murakami
• the communist manifesto | marx & engels
• zadie smith: critical essays
• jane eyre | charlotte brontë
• possession | a.s. byatt
• haroun and the sea of stories | salman ru...

• fahrenheit 451 | françois truffaut, 1966
• indiscretion of an american wife | vittorio de sica, 1954
• notorious | alfred hitchcock, 1946
• murmur of the heart | louis malle, 1971
• baby doll | elia kazan, 1956
• the fountainhead | king vidor, 1949
• the loneliness of the long distance runner | tony richardson, 1962
• the shop around the corner | ernst lubitsch, 1940
• an education | lone scherfig, 2009
• brideshead revisited | julian jarrold, 2008
• pinky | elia kazan, 1949
• a single man | tom ford, 2009
• a serious man | the coen bros., 2009
• up in the air | jason reitman, 2009
• shutter island | martin scorcese, 2010
• the vips | anthony asquith, 1963

goal: watch 250 films i've never seen before

• a life of her own | george cukor, 1950
• shanghai express | josef von sternberg, 1932
• stage fright | alfred hitchcock, 1950
• house | nobuhiko obayashi, 1977
• red desert | michelangelo antonioni, 1964
• f for fake | orson welles, 1973
• earrings of madame de... | max ophüls, 1953
• merry christmas, mr. lawrence | nagisa oshima, 1983
• pandora and the flying dutchman | albert lewin, 1951
• true grit | the coen bros., 2010
• the social network | david fincher, 2010
• syndromes and a century | apichatpong weerasethakul, 2006
• pleasures of the flesh | nagisa oshima, 1965

includes new reads and re-reads

• paul mccartney: many years from now | barry miles
• the parable of the sower | octavia butler
• charlotte temple | susanna rowson
• kim | rudyard kipling
• narrative of the life of frederick douglass | frederick douglass
• incidents in the life of a slave girl | harriet jacobs
• the death of ivan ilych | leo tolstoy
• edgar huntly; or, memoirs of a sleep-walker | charles brockden brown
• haroun and the sea of stories | salman rushdie
• the last of the mohicans | james fenimoore cooper
• the english patient | michael ondaatje
• wide sargasso sea | jean rhys
• maud martha | gwendolyn brooks